joannaholman

joannaholman, 5 days ago to melbourne

#melbourne folk: some friends and I are aiming to try European cuisines we haven’t had before. What are some good places serving European food types less common in Melbourne? (so not Italian/greek/french)

joannaholman, 9 days ago to random

If you use Spotify, never click on the pop up recommendations or items on the front page with sponsored small print. Artists are paying for those, resulting in them seeing less of their already too small royalties. Go search for the track if you see something in a popup that sounds interesting. https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/13/23872199/spotify-showcase-sponsored-recommendations-home-feed-artists

joannaholman, 9 days ago to random

Lots of nerdy detail about the challenges of using the internet in Antarctica https://brr.fyi/posts/engineering-for-slow-internet

joannaholman, 9 days ago to random

Dear marketers in the northern hemisphere: if you have an international customer base referencing the upcoming summer is a sure way to annoy your southern hemisphere customers dreading heading into winter

Daily discussion thread: ☔☂🌂Fursday, May 30, 2024

It’s going to rain. Take a brolly.

joannaholman, 10 days ago to random

Because we didn't all hate Ticketmaster enough, they've gotten themselves a data breach https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-29/ticketmaster-hack-allegedlyshinyhunter-customers-data-leaked/103908614

joannaholman, 11 days ago to random

There should be international regulations about how many countries a band has to be performing in before they’re allowed to call it a world tour. US, Canada and the UK shouldn’t count as a world tour

engagedpractx, 11 days ago to random

Not sure how I feel about these instructions.

timrichards, 17 days ago to random

Weird science. You wonder why some future society would be keen to develop science to bring deceased 80somethings back from death. What's in it for them?

Southern Hemisphere's first cryogenically frozen client at rest in regional New South Wales facility - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-23/sydney-man-first-cryogenically-frozen-holbrook-regional-nsw/103879454

joannaholman, 17 days ago to random

The #mebourne I love is a well attended mid week talk on Singaporean literature where the Indigenous Acknowledgement of Country is delivered in English, Malay and Tamil

joannaholman, 17 days ago to melbourne

#melbourne book lovers: I spotted two very exciting looking things this weekend:
Readings is having a warehouse sale at their north Melbourne warehouse on Saturday https://www.readings.com.au/news/famous-readings-warehouse-sale

The Art Book Fair Stallholder Fair is happening at NGV Friday through to Sunday https://artbookfair.melbourne/events/stallholder-fair/

joannaholman, 18 days ago to random

I wonder how much of the current anti-social silliness around AI tools is that our culture has so glorified working in tech as the ultimate job that people are inventing pointless and unhelpful things to have an excuse to stay in the field rather than moving on to something more useful?

joannaholman, 29 days ago to melbourne

#melbourne folk: Julian O'Shea just announced a short encore run of his fantastic Melbourne themed comedy show M is for Melbourne. It's so much fun https://thebutterflyclub.com/show/m-is-for-melbourne-the-world-s-mostly-liveable-city

liampomfret, 29 days ago to random

We're only on the third song, and we've already had two sung in languages other than English. A good omen for the rest of the night, hopefully. #SBSEurovision

joannaholman, 30 days ago to random

So weird hearing people still using the phrase “avoid it like the plague” when we’ve conclusively established most people aren’t that committed to avoiding plagues

timrichards, 1 month ago to australia

I was wondering about the longest domestic trip you could do by air in Australia. Glancing online, it looks like flying from the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Norfolk Island in the Pacific (via Perth and Sydney) would take about 12 hours flying time, not factoring in the transit time at airports. That would be one long trek!

#Australia #Flying

joannaholman, 1 month ago to random

Swabbing myself for a pandemic disease between video meetings is not the future I imagined growing up

joannaholman, 1 month ago to random

There should be a law that streaming platforms cannot increase their prices without providing verification of a corresponding increase in payouts to artists/content creators

joannaholman, 1 month ago to random

Today I learned the Australian government designates a selection of phone numbers that look real but will never be actually active for use in TVs or movies. Could be useful if you ever need a fake number to sign up for something but don't want a stranger getting spammed https://www.acma.gov.au/phone-numbers-use-tv-shows-films-and-creative-works

joannaholman, 1 month ago to melbourne

Kinda cool to see a stream train on the #melbourne Metro network but I have questions about who thought it was okay to run it under the southern cross roof where it made the air visibly dirty

A red steam train running through a multi platform urban station with a high roof

joannaholman, 1 month ago to random

Nothing says greenwashing like advertising a luxury product as refillable on a 4 story high banner likely made of non recyclable materials

A perfume ad banner almost the full height of the Melbourne central shot tower

joannaholman, 1 month ago to melbourne

May you live with the confidence of people making yet another attempt at bringing a big Ferris wheel to #melbourne

https://www.timeout.com/melbourne/news/sky-high-fun-a-huge-new-ferris-wheel-is-coming-to-melbournes-cbd-042624